From ffef9b8c50174c2af19dae914e25c62d0cd529d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:51:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] AIX doc addition:
> FWIW, the section on configuring kernel resources under various
> Unixen[1] doesn't have any documentation for AIX. If someone out there
> knows which knobs need to be tweaked, would they mind sending in a doc
> patch? (Or just specifying what needs to be done, and I'll add the
> SGML.)
After verifying that nobody wound up messing with the kernel
parameters, here's a docs patch...
Chris Browne
---
doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index 35525b8b19e..2a9177170c7 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.264 2004/05/26 15:07:33 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.265 2004/05/26 18:51:43 momjian Exp $
-->
<Chapter Id="runtime">
@@ -3611,6 +3611,26 @@ sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><systemitem class="osname">AIX</></term>
+ <indexterm><primary>AIX</><secondary>IPC configuration</></>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ At least as of version 5.1, it should not be necessary to do
+ any special configuration for such parameters as
+ <varname>SHMMAX</varname>, as it appears this is configured to
+ allow all memory to be used as shared memory. That is the
+ sort of configuration commonly used for other databases such
+ as <application>DB/2</application>.</para>
+
+ <para> It may, however, be necessary to modify the global
+ <command>ulimit</command> information in
+ <filename>/etc/security/limits</filename>, as the default hard
+ limits for filesizes (<varname>fsize</varname>) and numbers of
+ files (<varname>nofiles</varname>) may be too low.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><systemitem class="osname">Solaris</></term>
--
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